COLICINE K

COLICINE K VII. THE TRANS~V.R OF TYPE K COLICmOGENY

There can be but little doubt that the bactericidal activity of the colieine K which is elaborated by F~cherichia coli K235 resides in the protein portion of the bacterial somatic antigen (1). In its native state this component is firmly bound to a lipopolysaccharide and the two cannot be separated by the usual chemical or physical techniques. The question has arisen, however, as to what might ...

Enhancement of Antibiotic Activity of Colicine K and Alteration of Serological Properties of Colicine K and Endotoxins

Hemoglobin, its chains, and myoglobin enhance the antibiotic activity of colicine K. These proteins also interact with colicine K and other O antigens to alter their serological activity. The hemoglobin proteins did not alter the serological activities of three Pneumococcus polysaccharides or T4 bacteriophage DNA antigens but did alter the antigenic activity of fetuin. Interaction of hemoglobin...

Colicine-susceptibility patterns of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

Comparison of colicine production and diffusion on different solid media.

Using a freezing-thawing method for extracting colicine from solid media it has been shown that the choice of media for production and diffusion is important. Digest nutrient agar yielded the most colicine and peptone water agar the least. A factor in bacteriological peptone, but absent in a proteose peptone (Difco) and Neopeptone, was responsible for inhibiting production on peptone water agar...

Colicine types of Shigella sonnei isolated in Hong Kong.

Two-hundred and twenty-five strains of Shigella sonnei isolated from sporadic cases of bacillary dysentery were subjected to colicine typing. The result showed that types 15 and 12 were the prevailing types in Hong Kong and two new types which did not fit in with the colicine patterns of the current types were observed. A marked increase in the numbers of strains concurrently resistant to chlor...